new rec. appassionata beethoven 1st mvt

[jehangircama]

today's rec. of appassionata- this is the 1st mvt. again on upright yamaha, using laptop mike and audacity. at abt 5.05 or so there's a sudden blip, i think that's when the comp. screen went off.

hope this one gets a few more comments than its predecessor...am posting the rest of it in another post.
thanks
jc

[aslanov]

i'll comment on the section i stopped listening at.
That portion where theres the tremolo like triplets in the left hand, and the singing octave melody in the right. When you get to the subito piano, you gotta push the crescendo all the way, you gotta come in piano RIGHT on the note, not before to give it a more like..."gasp" effect, like ur just short of breath or something. you know? maybe im not using hte right metaphor, but you get the idea.

[birba]

Well, I sat through it, believe it or not.  I kept thinking, "what is wrong with it?".  Too slow, maybe.  But that's not it.  It sounds like a computer read-out.  At a slow speed.  But it could actually work, though, if there was at least, a minimum of phrasing.  You make the second theme sound like a march!  There's no direction.  The lines don't go anywhere.  They just "clump" along.  It's boring.  There's no life to it.  A few glitches here and there (apart from some sort of misreading in bars 28-29  and 167-8) wouldn't have marred the performance if there had just been some sort of musical intention somewhere.  At this same speed, play it, figure it out, follow the flow, colors, dynamics.  DO SOMETHING TO IT!
(You asked for it.)